This collection is a timely reconsideration of the intersection between two of the dominant events of twentieth-century American history, the upheaval wrought by the Second World War and the social revolution brought about by the African American struggle for equality.

• Contributors


• Introduction: The Second World War and the Civil Rights Movement- Kevin M. Kruse and Stephen Tuck


• Chapter 1: Freedom to Want: The Federal Government and Politicized Consumption in World War II- James T. Sparrow


• Chapter 2: Confronting the Roadblock: Congress, Civil Rights and World War II- Julian E. Zelizer


• Chapter 3: Segregation and the City: White Supremacy in Alabama in the Mid-Twentieth Century- J. Mills Thornton III


• Chapter 4: Movement Building during the World War II Era: The NAACP's Legal Insurgency in the South- Patricia Sullivan


• Chapter 5: Hillburn, Hattiesburg, and Hitler: Wartime Activists Think Globally and Act Locally- Thomas Sugrue


• Chapter 6: "You can sing and punch ... but you can't be a soldier or a man": African American Struggles for a New Place in Popular Culture- Stephen Tuck


• Chapter 7: "A War for States' Rights": The White Supremacist Vision of Double Victory- Jason Morgan Ward


• Chapter 8: The Sexual Politics of Race in WWII America- Jane Dailey


• Chapter 9: Civil Rights and World War II in a Global Frame: Shape-shifting Racial Formations and the U.S. Encounter with European and Japanese Colonialism- Penny Von Eschen


• Chapter 10: Race, Rights, and Non-Governmental Organizations at the UN San Francisco Conference: A Contested History of "Human Rights . . . without discrimination"- Elizabeth Borgwardt


• Chapter 11: "Did the Battlefield Kill Jim Crow?": The Cold War Military, Civil Rights, and Black Freedom Struggles- Kimberley L. Phillips

KK: Associate Professor of History, Princeton University. Author of White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton UP, 2005) and co-editor of The New Suburban History (University of Chicago Press, 2006). ST: University Lecturer in History, University of Oxford. Author of We Ain''t What We Ought To Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama (Harvard UP, 2010)and Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980 (University of Georgia, 2003).